[ad_1] Remember when it took 15 ballots—and a bunch of self-defeating concessions—for Kevin McCarthy to win the speakership ten months ago? Well, for the Grand Old...
[ad_1] “Have I been too glum?” Dana Milbank asked me. I had just spent 20 minutes with the Washington Post columnist talking about the GOP, the...
[ad_1] When Representative Steve Scalise emerged yesterday from the private party meeting where House Republicans narrowly nominated him to serve as the next speaker, he sounded...
[ad_1] The fall of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy today demonstrated again that the one sin that cannot be forgiven in the modern Republican Party is being...
[ad_1] The speaker made a last-minute reversal to avert a government shutdown. It could cost him his job. Anna Moneymaker / Getty September 30, 2023, 5:52...
[ad_1] Senator Dianne Feinstein, who died last night at 90, braved one of the most remarkable political expeditions in American history—and also one of the grimmer...
[ad_1] It’s generally not a good sign when the witnesses you call undermine the case you’re trying to make. But that’s precisely what happened as Republicans...
[ad_1] WASHINGTON (AP) — Working furiously to take control of a House in disarray, allies of Speaker Kevin McCarthy implored their Republican colleagues Saturday to drop...
[ad_1] On Inside the Hive, host Brian Stelter talks to Vanity Fair’s Abigail Tracy and veteran political journalist John Harwood about Kevin McCarthy’s failure to control...
[ad_1] Yesterday was not a good day for House Republicans or for their struggling leader, Speaker Kevin McCarthy. In the morning, McCarthy was forced to scrap...
[ad_1] The speaker’s abrupt impeachment probe against Biden is the latest sign that he’s still fighting for his job. Chip Somodevilla / Getty September 12, 2023,...
[ad_1] House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and his top deputy in Republican leadership, Steve Scalise, are volleying blame as the right flank of the conference lashes out at its leadership over...
[ad_1] When Aria Branch walks into the New York State Supreme Court on June 8 to deliver her opening statement, she will be concentrating on the arcana...
[ad_1] The budget cuts that House Republicans are demanding in their high-stakes debt-ceiling standoff with President Joe Biden sharpen the overlapping generational and racial conflict moving...
[ad_1] In the quiet, marbled halls of the U.S. Capitol, speaking too frankly is frowned upon by most lawmakers. And then there’s Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.),...
[ad_1] With Congress gone for a spring break, the White House made sure everyone knew House Republicans had yet to put out a budget resolution, and...
[ad_1] The escalating confrontation between the parties over the federal budget rests on a fundamental paradox: The Republican majority in the House of Representatives is now...
[ad_1] WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans on Wednesday demanded testimony and documents from two former Manhattan prosecutors who had been leading a criminal investigation into Donald...
[ad_1] Speaker Kevin McCarthy and his lieutenants in House leadership took a makeshift stage in a courtyard at the Orlando, Florida Ritz-Carlton to open up what was intended...
[ad_1] As for any allies, “If you find them, please let me know,” she tells me. “It’s been a very lonely start to the year. I...